Recently, there was a tweet by Ned Batchelder that illustrated how to make Python REPL output prettier. I went to implement it, and wanted to put together some instructions for the future.

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Vectors are pretty important in the introductory physics course. Here are some tips on using python to teach vectors.

Pythran is an ahead of time compiler for a subset of the Python language, with a focus on scientific computing. It takes a Python module annotated with a few interface description and turns it into a native Python module with the same interface, but (hope... (more…)

Constant-factor differences are frequently ignored when analyzing the complexity of algorithms and implementations, as they appear to be insignificant in practice In this paper, we demonstrate that this assumption can in fact have far more profound implic... (more…)